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by **Yon Han CHON** » Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:00:00

I have just set up xdm and xlogin and it works fine.

My problem is that how can I change colour depth of X window? When I was
using
startx command I can give -bpp 16 if I want higher colour depth but now
I don't know
how. We have a program which only runs on bit colour then again netscape
look
much nicer with colour depth 16. I would be great to restart the X
window with different
colour depth.

Thanks in advance.

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by **Karl Garriso** » Sun, 15 Feb 1998 04:00:00

> I have just set up xdm and xlogin and it works fine.

> My problem is that how can I change colour depth of X window? When I
> was using
> startx command I can give -bpp 16 if I want higher colour depth but
> now I don't know
> how. We have a program which only runs on bit colour then again
> netscape look
> much nicer with colour depth 16. I would be great to restart the X
> window with different
> colour depth.

Add a line to the screen section of your XF86Config file that
corresponds to the server you use: "DefaultColorDepth 16". Just as an
example, below is the screen section in my XF86Config file, just so you
can see where the line goes:

Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
# Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
#Device "Generic VGA"
Device "My Video Card"
Monitor "NEC MultiSync 3FGx"
BlankTime 0
DefaultColorDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 640 480
EndSubsection
EndSection

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Karl Garrison

Very Computer

Switching colour depth when using xdm

Switching colour depth when using xdm

Switching colour depth when using xdm